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DHS OIG, Aug. 8, 2024 "In January 2024, we conducted onsite, unannounced inspections at four U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in the Del Rio area, specifically three U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol) facilities and one Office...

Dan Gooding, Newsweek, June 28, 2024 "LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing persecution have reported being subjected to physical and verbal abuse while in U.S. custody, with some being driven to self-harm, left with hives or experiencing panic attacks. A new...

As reported by El Paso immigration law superstar Taylor Levy (@taylorklevy on X) on June 6, 2024 , the ICE Online Detainee [a.k.a. "prisoner"] Locator web tool has been improved to include those prisoners " currently in CBP custody for...

DHS OIG, Mar. 15, 2024 "In July 2023, we conducted on-site, unannounced inspections of six U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in the Rio Grande Valley area, specifically three U.S. Border Patrol facilities and three Office of Field...

CGRS, Mar. 15, 2024 "Al Otro Lado and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel the government to release information on its policies and practices at open air detention...

Robert Moore, El Paso Matters, Sept. 17, 2021 "A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false...

NWIRP, Nov. 17, 2020 EMAILS SHOW CBP DETAINED HUNDREDS OF IRANIANS FOR HOURS PURSUANT TO UNLAWFUL DIRECTIVE Media Contacts: Matt Adams, NWIRP Legal Director – (206) 957-8611, matt@nwirp.org Imraan Siddiqi, CAIR-WA Executive Director – imraansiddiqi...

Cedar Attanasio, Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press, June 21, 2019 "A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they’ve been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy...

MSNBC, Mar. 17, 2019 "Threatened with arrest and asked about their political beliefs, journalists, activists, and lawyers on a federal list are detained and questioned at the border based on their work with asylum seekers."

Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Oct. 1, 2018 - "An American family that underwent a harrowing  detention  at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That’s the...

CBP, Nov. 30, 2016 - "U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) is standing up a temporary holding facility adjacent to the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge in Donna, Texas to provide additional capacity for unaccompanied children and family...

"Alba Quiñones Flores started her period the first week that she was in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection.  Every morning, a guard delivered sanitary napkins to her cell of 20 women—but only four or five pads for all of them.  Quiñones...

"Americans for Immigrants Justice (AI Justice) filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court against Customs & Border Protection (CBP) to force CBP to disclose documents and records related to the abuse immigrant women, children and men held by CBP in...

NILC, Feb. 19, 2020 "A federal court today ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection to overhaul the way the agency detains people in its custody in its Tucson Sector. The court found that the conditions in CBP holding cells, especially those...